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Delegate vs Outsource - What's the difference?

delegate | outsource |

As verbs the difference between delegate and outsource

is that delegate is to authorize someone to be a delegate while outsource is to transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.

As a noun delegate

is a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

delegate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
  • a representative at a conference, etc.
  • (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
  • (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (delegat)
  • to authorize someone to be a delegate
  • to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
  • (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours
  • outsource

    English

    (Outsourcing)

    Verb

    (outsourc)
  • (chiefly, US, business, management) To transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.
  • They decided to outsource the design and manufacture of the system to a vendor.

    Synonyms

    * farm out, subcontract

    Derived terms

    * outsourceable * outsourcer

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